Kenneth Waltz Philosopher

Kenneth Neal Waltz (/wɔːlts/; June 8, 1924 – May 12, 2013) was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations. He was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War.Waltz was a founder of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory. Waltz's theories have been extensively debated within the field of international relations. In 1981, Waltz published a monograph arguing that the proliferation of nuclear weapons would increase the probability of international peace.Leslie H. Gelb has considered Waltz one of the "giants" who helped define the field of international relations as an academic discipline. Columbia University colleague Robert Jervis has said of Waltz, "Almost everything he has written challenges the consensus that prevailed at the time" and "Even when you disagree, he moves your thinking ahead."

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Birth date	June 08, 1924
Birth place	Ann Arbor Michigan
Date of death	May 12, 2013
Place of death	Washington D.C.
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Main interest	Anarchy (international relations) International security Nuclear safety and security

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influenced	Joseph Nye John Mearsheimer Stephen Walt Robert Keohane Robert Jervis Robert Gilpin
influenced by	Immanuel Kant Niccolò Machiavelli Thomas Hobbes Reinhold Niebuhr
notable idea	Neorealism (international relations) Defensive realism
philosophical school	Neorealism (international relations)